After a long gestation, and a COVID related delay, the mighty swipe MetroCard replacement finally shipped. The OMNY card: a white-label EMV bank payment card using the mastercard payment network, not a MIFARE or FeliCa smartcard like San Fransisco Clipper or Tokyo Suica. MetroCard missed the transit smartcard revolution of […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - EMV
The Apple Pay EMV Express Mode Security Trade-off
The Practical EMV Relay Protection paper authored by Andreea-Ina Radu, Tom Chothia, Christopher J.P. Newton, Ioana Boureanu and Liqun Chen, outlines a potential weakness with VISA cards when used with Apple Pay Express Transit. The BBC reported the issue which was then widely reported on Apple news sites. The authors […]
MIFARE - Mobile Payments - Transit
Isn’t Oyster card supposed to be dead?
The BBC asks the question, yet again: “London’s Oyster card: Are its days numbered?” It’s no secret that Transport for London has been trying to get rid of Oyster ever since 2011 when TfL, eyes firmly locked on the London Olympics, decided to put their resources into the emerging EMV […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Watch - iPhone
Secrets of iOS 15 Apple Wallet
iOS 15 Wallet is deceptive. The first impression out of the box is that nothing has changed much. It looks the same, it works the same. It doesn’t help that many of the new features won’t come until later in the iOS 15 life cycle and will be limited to […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Octopus - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - Apple Watch - CASHLESS - EMV - FeliCa - iPhone - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - Suica - Touchless - Transit
UWB Touchless Express Transit and Apple Pay for iOS 15?
A recent sudden surge of hits from Hong Kong accessing my December 2019 UWB Touchless Mobile FeliCa post seemed odd. I dug around and it appears that Hong Kong MTR, like JR East, is making noises about incorporating UWB technology in next generation transit gates. iOS 14.5 added a new […]